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great reply...

Posted by Farmer on January 30, 2009 at 16:15:42

In Reply to: Re: Brain-f**k cult, abuse and healing posted by Thinker on January 30, 2009 at 10:11:06:

Thank you Thinker, I filed your reply, for otherwise it's sometimes hard to find again such valuable answers later in the boardfiles...

One thing is needful in what you described as a helpful avenue: the personal confrontation with the abuser...that reminds me a bit of the South
African truthcommission:

(South_Africa)

...meaning,the abusers should at best be still alive & the whereabouts known...that's the tough part for most/many 2G of TF


I remember my father telling me disobeying orders burning russian village-houses...on the retreat of the German army from russian soil, because of some personal pleas...and he was only lowranking in any case...some of the s.it that happened in his life amazed me...In "selfrighteousness" as a teen I thought, the older Generation should have been more courageous à la Stauffenberg or the White Rose-members...amazing/miracle, he survived physically unscarred, judged by the events told.He had a hard time forgetting all that, those were eight years & more, which he would have liked back in life & very remotely that reminds me of life in TF (in the sense also, that I was morally not making better choices in life than him, only my father had little to no choice...choice against mainstream was endangering your life.)

The relationship between Jews & Germans are still suuuuper delicate & I can hardly imagine anything more difficult (for us)...When I went with
19 to Israel...I felt "collectively" bad...reminds me of feeling collectively bad towards the SGAs